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Fought Cortina and his Raiders

 

 - This article was written in the early 1900s by a Milton M. Dodson of Mathis Texas.  This is a story of the recruitment of Texas Rangers to fight bandits.  In November 1859, John Donaldson, a stockman of Live Oak County, got together a party of cowboys to go out to the assistance of Tobin in his effort to rout Cortina. The party consisted of Donaldson, whom we chose as Captain, and the following eighteen cowboys: George Frazier, John Crump, Martin Culver, Nathan Bartlett, Floyd Powell, Cephas Winters, Moses Hill, Jim Wilburn, Zach Wilson, Alf. Robinson (son of the famous Sally Skull), John Futch, William Hubbard, John Ellis, John S. Givens, P.S. Hagy, Van Meter, William Ferrell, and myself.

submitted by John Hawley


 



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